Emilie McCormack

Okay.

So I'm going to start with a practical and then I'll go into more like my own experience.

So I finished seminary last year and my professor, who is like a mentor, he's like a grandpa to us, just a hero of the faith.

He taught us this kind of framework when we were making our decision of, are we moving across the country, leaving everything we know and love and our family, making a massive decision that has impact, not just on us, but a church community, on family, on our children.

Like

Truly, I felt crippled by, I cannot make this decision.

I do not know.

And I've never heard the audible voice of God.

I would love it if he would write on the wall again with his own hand.

So I felt pretty crippled in how in the world am I going to make this decision?

And we would call him.

when I'd be a hot mess being like, help us, Gary.

And he gave this framework, and I have used it so many times.

And he said, as you're discerning, as you're sitting with God in big decisions, big or small, this has been helpful.

And I still use this, and I tell as many people as I can about it.

And it's a five-fold bucket.

First is prayer.

You do need to sit with the Lord, and you have to be silent.

If you and I were right now both talking at the same time, the listeners would be like, what is going on?

I just want to hear what Sadie's saying or I want to hear what Emily's saying.